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GCJ is itself similar to the much older ACM's ICPC ( http://cm.baylor.edu/welcome.icpc http://cm.baylor.edu/welcome.icpc , around in some form since 1977 http:/
by sparky 16y ago
GCJ is itself similar to the much older ACM's ICPC ( http://cm.baylor.edu/welcome.icpc http://cm.baylor.edu/welcome.icpc , around in some form since 1977 http://cm.baylor.edu/ICPCWiki/Wiki.jsp?page=The%20Early%20Years http://cm.baylor.edu/ICPCWiki/Wiki.jsp?page=The%20Early%20Ye... ), though of course it's not limited to college students.
- staktrace 16y agoThe ICPC is fairly different in format though. For one, it's always team-based, and usually has much harder problems since the entrants are always university-level students who have taken advanced algorithms courses. I've participated in both TopCoder contests and the ICPC and the GCJ/HackerCup are definitely TopCoder-style rather than ICPC.